No wonder, many solvers have refrained from commenting.16down- SWINGERS was a good one. CV and Kishore: I came across a word CANDAUILISM ( a neo-greek word?) in one of the articles I read recently and surprisingly, this was not traced in either the OED or the Chambers. I then tried in the ubiquitous and all-knowing Google- Uncle and lo and behold, I did find an entire article on the latest in , ahem- permitted in these columns ? wife-swapping, Swingers etc. Now , one has to be careful in using the word SWINGERS in the social circles? Any comments?

Good for Google.But, even Google offers no help with the word introduced here by the setter - NEURAGMIA! It is also not there in Chambers, Oxford and other dictionaries commonly referred to.Perhaps, this may be a term familiar only to neurosurgeons.

Monday 20th: Spent the whole night due to Maha shivrathri, solving this puzzle and thanks to Gridman for keeping me awake and burning midnight power in these days of shortage. I'd call this puzzle , by far, a lesson in Beja Fry. Not too clever by half for the compiler to educate us in mind-reading.After all, we all are mortals. @5 Down DWELL and 26 Down: SMOTE ( haven;t we done before SET, LET and PUT being used as present, past and future tenses ?). One Across; could have been just .(4.4)for the sake of brevity. ? why End? Recently, I came across X., as a clue which could indicate any number of answers.

ARCTOPHILE( whoever wants to love teddy bears amongst us?) & ABUTTILON (Spoonerism for ABLUTION?) and TOXAEMIA? Have a heart , Gridman, we DO NOT want to learn any more new words!! What next? AXOLOTL? MY tongue got tangled between my teeth!

I am a surgeon and I have treated a few nerve injuries. We use the term Neuropraxia, Axonotemesis and Neurotemesis but this is the first time i am hearing the term NEURAGMIA. In fact this is the only clue I missed out today